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Taking Sides
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Taking Sides (1991) (edit title/settings)

by Gary Soto (Author) (edit contributors)

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Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school--where the students are rich and mostly white--faces his old team from the barrio on the boards. How can he play his best against his friends? No matter who wins, it looks like it will be lose-lose for Lincoln.

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Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.

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  • Lincoln Mendoza: Lincoln or otherwise known as Linc is the protaganist of the story. He just moved from one side of the city to the other and is about to play a basketball game againist his old school.
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Tony, Lincoln Mendoza whispered into the telephone.

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  1. Gary Soto (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
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Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0152840761
Page Count: 144

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